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As you look forward to your own celebrations this holiday season, set aside some time and thought for those who need some help this year, writes Heritage Park's Alida Visbach in a guest column for the Calgary Herald Christmas Fund.

Editor Jose Rodriguez announces the launch of the 2016 Calgary Herald Christmas Fund, which has raised more than $24 million for city agencies that form the front line against poverty, addiction and abuse. Every nickel raised goes directly to the selected agencies.

Love versus hate, hope versus despair, courage versus fear. In every life there comes at least one crisis when we have to choose between the light and the dark. For Colton Lewis, that time came far too early. At age 20, he was fighting for his life in a Calgary hospital, suffering from six stab […]

Faced with fewer jobs in an economic downturn along with the mental toll of returning from a war zone — veterans in the Calgary area need more support than ever. Officials with the 10th Annual Veterans Food Drive are asking for food and donations from generous Calgarians in hopes of helping veterans at a time […]

A university student who turned tragedy into a legacy for a murdered friend is being recognized for his generosity. Colton Lewis is one of seven Spirit of Giving award honourees chosen by the Calgary chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Through individual or business philanthropy, the seven have worked to help others and improve the community. Lewis decided to act after he and his […]

With winter jackets in high demand for Calgary families, this might be the biggest year yet for The Salvation Army’s Annual Coat Drive. Karen Livick, executive director of The Salvation Army in Calgary, said the coat drive originally focused on providing men with winter jackets, but the growing number of struggling families impacted by the […]

Even as many Calgarians struggle to keep their own pantries filled, that didn’t stop them from stepping up this weekend to ensure the food bank’s cupboards won’t go bare. Some 7,000 volunteers blitzed 198 city neighbourhoods as part of the Calgary Food Bank’s annual city-wide food drive, which coincides with increasing seasonal demand for the agency that continues […]

With hockey parents skating on thin financial ice amidst Calgary’s economic slide, Hockey Calgary is girding for a spike in requests for aid as registrations for the upcoming season roll in. Executive director Kevin Kobelka said while the deadline for parents to apply for financial support under Hockey Calgary’s Flames Even Strength Program is still a […]

Jim Yurkiewicz, a diabetic with high blood pressure and a new wound on his left foot was recently discharged from hospital and is now cared for at the Calgary Drop In & amp; Rehab Centre medical clinic, keeping him out of ER.

The Calgary Herald Christmas Fund was created in 1991 by Calgary Herald employees to provide Herald readers with the opportunity to respond to the needs of the city’s social agencies. Today, the Christmas Fund provides funding to local charities that address the critical needs that thousands of Calgarians face everyday, including hunger, homelessness, addiction and abuse.

When people talk about principle, sometimes it really isn’t about the money. The proposed and disputed sale of a small chunk of south Calgary’s parkland on the ridge at the top of Hillcrest Avenue is precisely about principle: All other arguments are specious.

One of the favourite holiday traditions for the Motley family is to bundle up against the winter elements and head out to take in Theatre Calgary’s A Christmas Carol. Nothing strikes at the heart more than when, after the cheers die down following the curtain call, Stephen Hair, the beloved local actor who has played Ebenezer Scrooge for the past 20 years, makes a final appearance on stage.

The Canadian Legacy Project is alerting Calgarians about a man who may be posing as a canvasser collecting funds for the veterans food drive in northwest Calgary. David Howard, president of the Canadian Legacy Project, said his organization has received a number of reports of a man going door to door in the Panorama Hills area on Saturday trying to collect funds on behalf of veterans and the veterans food drive.

“Let me pull my horse over so I don’t get charged with distracted driving,” Len Crow says from his cellphone near Turner Valley. He’s riding horseback from northern Alaska to Guadalajara, Mexico – an 11,000-kilometre trek – in the hopes of raising $1 million for orphanages in five countries.

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